Lathing



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No. 405,718. Patented June 25, 1889.

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UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

' LAUREN S. SCOTT, OF BRISTOL, VERMONT.

LATHING.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 405,718, dated June 25, 1889.

Application filed February 23, 1888. Serial No. 265,005. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, LAUREN S. SCOTT, of Bristol, in the county of Addison and State of Vermont, have invented certain Improvements in Lathing, of which the followiu g description, in connection with the accompanying sheet of drawings, constitutes a specification.

This improvement consists in making a fabric of strips of wood lath and twine or thread so combined by sewing as to constitute practically a web from which any desired length may be cut to fit or cover a particular space of wall or ceiling in the construction of a building, and which, after being nailed to the joists or studding, may be plastered upon in the usual way. Strips of wooden lath have heretofore been woven and interlaced with twine and wires in various ways, so as to constitute a web or fabric; so I do not herein claim to have invented a woven fabric of lath and twine, but only a specific variety thereof, which will be hereinafter more specifically set forth.

One difficulty in producing lathii'lg-webs from wire or twine and separate strips hitherto has been to get a web whichcould be cut in any direction without letting some of the lathing-strips loose. The strip and twine have not in all cases been inseparably united. Their mode of construction has often made the production thereof expensive and the machinery requisite to manufacture the fabric intricate and complex.

My invention is fully shown in the draw ings, wherein- Figure 1 shows my lath-Web nailed 011 the studding. Figs. 2, 3,4:, 5, 0, and 7 show transverse sections of the lath-strips taken through the plane of the stitching-thread, so as to show the various lengths and kinds of stitches which may be used.

The strips used are ordinary wooden strips of standard length, breadth, and thickness combined in groups of definite multiples and arranged, as shown in upper part of Fig. 1, so as to leave gaps G G at the edges for the purpose of breaking joints, or with eoterminous ends, so as to leave a straight selvage on the web, as seen in lower part of Fig. 1. \Vhen the first-described combination is used, the stitching is placed near the studding, as at B B; but in the other case it may be placed at any convenient distance therefrom. The strips are united by feeding them to a sewing-machine and stitching them together by any requisite number of transverse seams or series of stitches. In doing this the feed is so adjusted that the needle shall penetrate each lath at least once. The stitches may be spaced so as to span the whole interval between centers of strips, as in Fig. 2, or so that one stitch shall occur between the laths, as in Figs. 4., 5, and (3. As many stitch'es may occur in the wood as may be found necessary.

In Fig. 2 the stitch penetrates the center of the lat-h, and is of a length equivalent to the breadth of one strip and one intervening space.

In Fig. 3 the stitches are arranged so that two pass through the strip.

In Fig. i one stitch comes in the center of the strip and the next in the space between two strips.

In Fig. 5 the gage of stitch is the same as in Fig. 4.; but each stitch between the strips is locked or tied, as at t.

In Fig. (3 the gage is adjusted so as to bring two stitches in the strip and the next midway between the strips.

In Fig. 7 the chainstitch is shown with intervals of the width of a strip and space.

In all the illustrations some style of chain or look stitch is shown; but this is not essential, as any thread passed through a fine needle-hole made small enough to close upon the thread by contraction would permanently hold the strip in place.

Hence I claim as my invention- 1. A lathing fabric composed of parallel wooden strips arranged in proper position to be nailed in place and sewed together with twine or thread, the stitches passing through the bodies of the strips, as specified.

2. A lathing fabric composed of lathingstrips of any suitable material stitched together, substantially as specified.

In testimony whereof I have hereto subscribed my name, at Bristol, Vermont, this a 

